Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.

Making someone laugh is a good way to get their defences down so that they might then be open to new ideas, especially when they're laughing at some common ground they relate to. Comedy's always been an amazing tool for social change.

There is almost no topic that can't benefit from being talked about in a humorous way.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

I sank down onto the bed against the headboard and leaned back. I crossed my legs underneath me. "Then we'll talk." I said with a smile. Rush sat down onto the bed and leaned back against the wall. A deep chuckle came from his chest and I watched as a real smile broke out on his face. "I can't believe I just begged a female to sit and talk to me." In all honesty, I couldn't either.

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.

For those saying they live in fear, again, I think they should be part of the conversation. They should reach out and try to not be so presumptively accusatory, frankly, or presumptively negative towards the president-elect, and instead try to build that trusting relationship and try to, frankly, explain their case to him and to his advisers.